FELIZ DIA DE GRACIAS A TODOS! CONSIDERANDO LAS ULTIMAS NOTICIAS ALREDEDOR DEL MUNDO Y LO QUE HA OCCURIDO DURANTE EL ULTIMO ANO; HAY QUE DAR GRACIAS POR SALUD,...
Hola Gruperos! Back in Mexico again after several months away. We had to attend to the birth of a pair of twins by our youngest son-- You'd think all of this...
There is no Mexico City College page on Wikipedia. I have a Wikipedia page under Gwendolyn Midlo Hall and it mentions that I got my B.A. and M.A. frrom...
... That has to be the WORST wikipedia ever posted ! Will someone please post an accurate version? Sam Ormes BA 1960 MCC ************** A Good Credit...
Saw this newspaper story and wonder if any of the group could offer any comments from their perspective: Mexican collapse? Drug wars worry some Americans .. ....
Groupers: Who remembers the exchange rate in the late 50s? Or the price of Delicados? My memory is mixed up. I remember that the buying power of the US dollar...
... Hi Dennis, Can't help you on the price of Delicados, but I know that in '61 the exchange was 12 pesos to the dollar, and in Contadero one could buy a ...
Quivole! Hey, the price of cigs; now that is nostalgic for someone who did a lot of smoking in Mexico. A la Ricardo, gracias for the nostalgia: quit 31 years...
Here's some memory assistance for the 1958 - 61 period: 1. Delicados were 50 centavos, oval and really bad. 2. The exchange rate for many years was 12.5:1....
... Gee, I loved them. I remember now that dinner at the restaurant near my house on Protasio Tagle was 5 pesos. And if you were a big eater, seconds and ...
An observation on beers. Even on my limited G.I. Bill budget, I would not lower myself to order a cerveza CORONA. It was considered to be an inferior, ...
... They all wish they had been around in the 60s. And that's about the only thing they've ever gotten right. [Se han eliminado los trozos de este mensaje que...
Hear, Hear - Corona was swill. Our main cerveza during the golden era in DF was Superior. It and Negra Modelo or Noche Buena made up the main consumption. The...
Hola Amigos, The good ole days, no? In 59-60, I remember paying $110 per quarter, and I maxed out at c. 20 units every Q, allowing me to do two years in five...
Hear, Hear !!! Mucho te agradezco, Mexico, los recuerdos. Los anos en el DF, 1959 a 1961, eran a todo dar - como dicen las gemelias rubias de cerveza (se me...
Hola Alex y todos, I believe you are referring to: "La Rubia de Categoria," a blonde that advertized Superior, which was the "blonde" of the beer company that...
De acuerdo. Tienes razon - era "la rubia de categoria." To this day, I love Superior. There is a fairly new brew being marketed called La Victoria. Good stuff....
Pues, el vino de Santo Tomas era bastante sabroso. They sold it in the supermercados in D.F. in the '60s. Not sure if they still are in existence, but it's...
And for those hardcore afficiados, el pulque or agua miel de Huixcuilucan was the best. My mother in law, a barefoot Mazahua Indio from Santa Ana Nichi, said...
Hola, otra vez, I did not mean to imply there were no wines in Mexico, just that I imagined the country as being a major wine supplier and consumer...which, I...
This is getting good - as someone said, it recalls the halcyon days. They were macanudo!!! Just for the record: To a sober person - pulque has never been...
01:29 a.m. 03/02/2009 ¡Hola a todos! ¡Hijole! Another year and what a burst of memories! Si, Virginia, there really was an MCC! We just came in from a...
From "Page One": <<Tumbling Mexican Peso The Mexican Exchange Commission, with members from the Mexican Central Bank and the Ministry of Economics and Finance,...
This guy has got it right. Luckily, Ron Potosi is readily available even close to the border. I don't think that I've seen Bonampac in years. Ronpope was good...
Received this email,in part, from Don Brockington, former MCC student: "I attended MCC from Dec 54 to July 57 and in Fall quarter 55 lived in Acopilco. The MCC...
Hola Joseph! Thought everyone saw the groundhog's shadow and went back to bed. Thanks for opening this up again. Is Brockington a member of this exclusive...
Information you can live without: The MCC seal, as adopted by UDLAP almost 50 years ago, is no longer being used, and apparently there has not been a...
"Dorothy Tefft came to Mexico when she was about 15...and is now 83. I want to write something about culture clashes....and I want to go back to the...
